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2011 January 25

The Egyptian Revolution of 2011, locally known as the January 25 Revolution (Arabic: ثورة 25 يناير‎) began on 25 January 2011 and was part of the Arab Spring. It consisted of demonstrations, marches, occupations of plazas, riots, non-violent civil resistance, acts of civil disobedience and strikes. Millions of protesters from a range of socio-economic and religious backgrounds demanded the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The Egyptian protesters' grievances focused on legal and political issues, including police brutality, state-of-emergency laws, lack of free elections and freedom of speech, corruption, and economic issues including high unemployment, food-price inflation and low wages.

Protests started on Tuesday, January 25. What an amazing journey we all had during this time.
Living next to downtown, I was able to witness and march with many of the demonstrators.
Though my life and heart is Egypt, this is still not my country. What an experience to be part of a truly enlightened and peaceful demonstration of human unity. The world must know that there were more peaceful demonstrations then violence.

To remember those that have fallen.

We are all Khalid Said.
We are all one.
This spirit of unity is spoken here in Tahrir Square and across Egypt.

Almost all of these photos were taken with a Nokia E71 mobile phone as camera were confiscated or destroyed during the days of protests. I have many more photos posted to Flickr.